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As John Broder and I write in Thursday's Times, the Obama administration is backing Shell's audacious efforts to open Alaska's Arctic waters to oil drilling.

This is true even at a moment when much of the American labor movement has needed to expand its organizing strategies to combat gilded-age income inequality, including audacious efforts to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, sit-ins by cafeteria workers in the United States Senate, and the embrace of worker and day-laborer centers.

This year, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell accused President Obama and his allies of "an audacious effort to Europeanize the country".

Minerva is a well-financed, audacious effort to use technological advances to create an elite university at a much lower cost.

Renown came to Jean Toomer with his 1923 book "Cane," which mingled fiction, drama and poetry in a formally audacious effort to portray the complexity of black lives.

The audacious effort to push outward from the Financial Times's longtime beachheads in Washington and New York, the home base of The Wall Street Journal, was started a year ago.

Almost 300km south of Kiev, the Vinnytsia poultry farm is part of an audacious effort to transform the country once known as "Europe's breadbasket" into its "meatbasket".

Microsoft says it has reached an agreement to acquire the handset and services business of Nokia for about $7.2 billion, in an audacious effort to transform Microsoft's business for a mobile era that has largely passed it by, Nick Wingfield reports.

Microsoft has reached an agreement to acquire the handset and services business of Nokia for about $7.2 billion, an audacious effort to reshape itself for a mobile era that has largely passed it by, Nick Wingfield reports in The New York Times.

NextWave's moves included an audacious effort to use the bankruptcy proceeding to blunt the F.C.C.'s authority, as well as personal pleas by executives and investors to President Bill Clinton to intervene on the company's behalf.

But if Mr. Djukanovic and a group of foreign businessmen supporting him have their way, the port of Tivat, now just 20 percent complete, could become a new playground for the super-rich and the centerpiece of tiny Montenegro's audacious effort to clean up its image of corruption and gain entry to the European Union.